Power of the Dog’s Jane Campion Becomes 3rd Woman Ever to Win Best Director at the 2022 Oscars

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It’s her-story! Jane Campion won Best Director at the 94th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 27, for her work on The Power of the Dog.“Just want to say big love to my fellow nominees, I love you all, you’re all so extraordinarily talented and it could have been any of you,” Campion, 67, said. “I love directing because its a deep dive into story.

The task of manifesting a story can be overwhelming. The sweet thing is, I’m not alone. On The Power of the Dog, I worked with actors I move to call my friends.

They met the challenge of the story with the depth of their gifts: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jesse Plemons and my whole crew who are true hearts.”The New Zealand native beat out fellow filmmakers Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza), Kenneth Branagh (Belfast), Steven Spielberg (West Side Story) and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car).

Her win marks the third time that a woman has earned the directorial trophy, following Kathryn Bigelow in 2010 and Chloé Zhao in 2021.Campion — who also won Best Director at the 2022 Critic’s Choice Awards on March 13 — was previously nominated for the directorial Oscar in 1994 for her work on The Piano. (Spielberg, 75, took home the prize that year for Schindler’s List.)The Bright Star filmmaker prefaced her Academy Award win with a successful run at the Directors Guild Awards earlier this month, where she accepted the Theatrical Feature Film.The Power of the Dog earned 11 other Oscar nominations total, including Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Best Adapted Screenplay.